Top 100 Kellerman Quotes
#1. Pessimism is not good for the soul."
"I sold my soul years ago."
"To whom?"
"The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.
Jonathan Kellerman
#2. All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
Jesse Kellerman
#3. You have got a good side? I have. I just do not use it too often. My bad side is so much more fun.
Faye Kellerman
#4. People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.
Jesse Kellerman
#5. Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann
Jonathan Kellerman
#6. soothing: re-press of an old French recording of Ida Presti, possibly the greatest guitarist who ever lived, and her husband Alexandre Lagoya, pairing on Debussy's "Clair de Lune.
Jonathan Kellerman
#7. Grace is false, and beauty is vain. A woman who fears God - she is praised. Give to her of the fruit of her hands, and her deeds will praise her at the gates.
Jonathan Kellerman
#9. Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.
Jonathan Kellerman
#10. Most characteristics associated with leaders are masculine: dominance, authority, assertiveness, and so forth.
Barbara Kellerman
#12. Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.
Jonathan Kellerman
#13. You've got a good side?"
"I do. I just don't use it too often. My bad side's so much more fun.
Faye Kellerman
#14. atop his head a goofy skin cap simulating baldness and fringed with shoulder-length scraggle.
Jonathan Kellerman
#17. We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.
Jesse Kellerman
#19. These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
Jonathan Kellerman
#20. That is a fart without wind ... in reference to when you can't back up what you say. very funny.
Faye Kellerman
#21. It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.
Jonathan Kellerman
#22. But in the words of a great philosopher, you can't always get what you want.
Jonathan Kellerman
#23. I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.
Sally Kellerman
#24. It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.
Jesse Kellerman
#28. I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
Sally Kellerman
#31. Siblings are thrown together by chance. Anything from love to hate can follow.
Jonathan Kellerman
#32. Science, literature, and common sense tell us that the self is a fickle thing, subject to revision in real time, and that the chasm that exists between any two people exists inside each and every one of us.
Jesse Kellerman
#33. The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.
Jesse Kellerman
#35. It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
Sally Kellerman
#36. The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.
Jesse Kellerman
#37. I remember my father banging away on an IBM Selectric in the garage. He wrote his first novels on that machine. I remember its pebbly surface, its cold heft. It made its mark, literally and violently.
Jesse Kellerman
#38. And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
Sally Kellerman
#41. I didn't want to do it ... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
Sally Kellerman
#42. I had some trepidation about working with someone else, especially a family member. You don't want work to affect your personal relationship.
Jesse Kellerman
#43. Keith Moon in Wembley, England, all facts attested to by the writing on the memorials.
Jonathan Kellerman
#45. Just because others have it worse doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence.
Jonathan Kellerman
#46. I'll buy lunch."
"Not Hungry."
I laughed.
He said, "I can't stand when you do that."
"Do what?"
"Assume I'm ruled by my digestive system."
"God forbid," I said, "Want me to drive? Think T-bone.
Jonathan Kellerman
#47. I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.
Jesse Kellerman
#48. Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience".
"What's pessimism?" I said.
"Religion without God.
Jonathan Kellerman
#49. I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
Sally Kellerman
#50. I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.
Jesse Kellerman
#51. Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
Jesse Kellerman
#52. What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.
Barbara Kellerman
#53. Five people read my work before its ready for publication, and I solicit opinions from all of them: my wife, my agent, my editor, and my parents.
Jesse Kellerman
#54. Kids are like heroin
an injection of pain when they're around, but even when they're not around it's like that next fix. You just can't stop thinking about it.
Faye Kellerman
#56. The symptoms of madness can often be altered with medication, but there's no therapy for evil.
Jonathan Kellerman
#58. That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right.
Jonathan Kellerman
#59. Charisma is a mysterious and powerful thing. I have it in limited supply, and that which I do have functions under highly specialized conditions.
Jesse Kellerman
#60. Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.
Jesse Kellerman
#61. That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.
Jonathan Kellerman
#62. It was a sucker punch. But you know who gets hit by sucker punches? Suckers.
Max Kellerman
#63. Because like all psychopaths he was grandiose, and convinced of his own personal magnetism, assumed worship on the part of others.
Jonathan Kellerman
#64. I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.
Jesse Kellerman
#65. His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)
Jonathan Kellerman
#67. I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
Sally Kellerman
#68. When it's silent, your brain fills in the music," Decker told him. "After all these years, I think I've finally learned how to listen.
Faye Kellerman
#69. I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
Sally Kellerman
#70. The final product in a play is not just the written word. It's the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it's only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse.
Jesse Kellerman
#71. It's simply not relevant to my role as an advocate, and even to begin to think along those lines would hamper me in the execution of my duties.
Jonathan Kellerman
#72. What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments to each other. In this case, however, the guy is also charging one dollar, and that is his undoing.
Max Kellerman
#73. Grinding his jaws. Barb snapped, "Over and done, put a fork in it." Stan
Jonathan Kellerman
#75. It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.
Jesse Kellerman
#76. -a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected.
The Butcher's Theater
Jonathan Kellerman
#77. There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
Jesse Kellerman
#78. The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
Jonathan Kellerman
#79. Aspiring female leaders risk being liked but not respected, or respected but not liked, in settings that may require individuals to be both in order to succeed.
Barbara Kellerman
#81. Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.
Jonathan Kellerman
#83. I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.
Jonathan Kellerman
#84. Home was where the heart was and Grace's heart was a hunk of muscle that worked just fine on its own.
Jonathan Kellerman
#85. In seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.
Jesse Kellerman
#87. If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us ... but they're still fucking psychopaths.
Jonathan Kellerman
#88. If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn't stand a chance.
Jonathan Kellerman
#89. A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)
Jonathan Kellerman
#90. What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.
Faye Kellerman
#91. There's profit in law enforcement?" "I was thinking spiritually." -
Jonathan Kellerman
#92. Icy people often freeze themselves in order to hold in check a volcanic stew of disturbing and conflictual feelings. Emotional hibernation, if you will. Crack the ice and the stuff inside comes pouring out with all the discipline of molten lava.
Jonathan Kellerman
#93. It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.
Jonathan Kellerman
#94. From Heartbreak Hotel:
(Thalia)" knew how tot focus on what was important and she kept things simple"
"Live long enough and everything becomes. Live long enough and your interests narrow
Jonathan Kellerman
#95. I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
Sally Kellerman
#96. Being a member of the Nintendo generation, I've got a really short attention span.
Jesse Kellerman
#97. My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
Sally Kellerman
#98. Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.
Jesse Kellerman
#99. Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am ...
Jonathan Kellerman
#100. Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.
Jonathan Kellerman
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